About

Money Trail PH is a source-first, faction-blind public record of where Philippine public money went across every major corruption scandal. From the Marcos-era plunder cases through PDAF, DAP, NBN-ZTE, Pharmally, the drug war's accountability proceedings, the current flood control investigations, and POGO laundering. It exists because the documented record is enormous, scattered across hundreds of court filings, agency releases, Senate transcripts, and news articles, and effectively inaccessible to the ordinary literate adult who would benefit most from understanding it.

The site compresses that record into a navigable timeline. It does not produce original allegations. It compiles, structures, and links to what is already public.

What this is not

• It is not an investigative outlet. It does not break news.
• It is not a partisan project. No faction is protected or targeted.
• It is not personality-driven. There is no host and no brand voice.
• It is not a platform for unsourced opinion or commentary.

Authorship

The maintainer publishes pseudonymously. This is a deliberate editorial choice intended to keep attention on the record itself rather than on any individual. The project is open source; the methodology is documented; the corrections log is public. The work is verifiable without knowing who built it.

Editorial principles

Six non-negotiables guide every change:

1. Source or it didn't happen.
2. Faction-blind. No protected names.
3. Boring on purpose. The facts are damning enough.
4. Denial included. Every accusation lists the response.
5. Corrections logged, never hidden.
6. The money is the protagonist. The people are the cast.

The full methodology document explains how each principle is applied.

Contact

For corrections, source submissions, or questions about a specific entry, please open an issue on the project repository. Do not contact the maintainer for political commentary; this project is the commentary.